Thursday, 24 November 2011

The Forum Romanum or what is left of the temples from the 2nd century.

The Forum Romanum and the Palatino, can be visited with the same ticket as the Colosseum. These are the ruins of the oldest part of Rome. The most impressive ancient remains of the early period of the Roman Empire are the Arch of Titus, the Arch of Septimius Severus, and the Rostra collumns. The remains of the temples of Julius Caesar, Romulus and Saturnus were less visible for us. What has touched us the most was the Arch of Titus, it was erected to celebrate the victory over the Jews and the destruction of the Temple of David in Jeruzalem. This gave us a very strange feeling because two weeks earlier we stood at the Wailing Wall in Jeruzalem where the Jews worship the place where the Temple of David stood. A physical confrontation with a war of almost 2.000 years ago.

Amazingly old buildings it must be awe inspiring. I can understand your unease being on both sides of a war 2000 years ago. Wouldn't you think Man would have worked out a more civilised way to solve problems by now, but no, there are still wars going on today 2000 years later. Will we ever change?????